The liberal Economic Policy Institute releases a new report this morning on workplace scheduling that confirms two commonly held assumptions: that poor workers are more likely to have erratic work schedules and that such scheduling has a negative effect on family life. “By industry, irregular scheduling is most prevalent in agriculture, personal services, business/ repair services, entertainment/recreation, finance/ insurance/real estate, retail trade, and transportation communications … The prevalence is reduced for union members, married workers, government employees, whites, men, and workers with a higher level of education.”
Politico
April 10, 2015
Thornswood’s experience is more widespread than you might think. At least 17 percent of all workers have irregular schedules that don’t look like the typical 9-5, Monday through Friday, according to a new study from the Economic Policy Institute. About 10 percent is given irregular and on-call shifts, while another 7 percent have split (two different shifts in one day) or rotating ones.
Think Progress
April 10, 2015
But Wyden opponents say his stance on trade is particularly problematic in Oregon, where more than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the past decade due to liberalized trade deals, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute.
Daily Beast
April 9, 2015
A Yale Law School student said in a panel discussion last month that Rolling Stone contributor Sabrina Rubin Erdely had contacted her as she narrowed her focus for what would be “A Rape on Campus,” the now-retracted expose on sexual assault at the University of Virginia. “She called me a couple months before and asked if I knew anyone at Yale,” said the student, Alexandra Brodsky, at a March 12 event presented by the American Constitution Society, the American Prospect and the Economic Policy Institute.
The Washington Post
April 9, 2015
That complaint about NAFTA, whatever its merits, is informing much of the liberal opposition to the TPP. It shouldn’t: Supporters and opponents of the TPP largely agree that its direct effect on the U.S. economy will be minor. “There are going to be very few jobs that will be affected,” said Robert Scott, the director of trade and manufacturing research at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, who opposes the deal.
The New Republic
April 8, 2015
Although hiring slowed, layoffs dropped sharply, providing some evidence that businesses might have temporarily put the brakes on filling their openings because of the cold winter. “The report generally corroborates that story, the recovery hasn’t stalled, but it isn’t doing much better than simply chugging along,” said Elise Gould, chief economist with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, in a blog post.state
The Hill
April 8, 2015
But more often than not, we’re being faced with a new issue of employment. Despite the fact the country is coming out of a recession, the Economic Policy Institute simply states people just aren’t getting jobs as easily, whether they have a college degree or not.
USA Today
April 7, 2015
According to research at the Economic Policy Institute, compensation for chief executives at publicly traded companies climbed 937 percent between 1978 and 2013, while the average worker’s compensation climbed just 10 percent.
Huffington Post
April 7, 2015
Across industries, CEO pay has risen over the past half-century in comparison with what the average worker earns. In 1965, the leaders of the top 350 publicly traded companies made an average of 20 times what the average worker did, but by 2013 that had ballooned to about 296 times, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with labor unions.
Wall Street Journal
April 6, 2015
During these years, inflation-adjusted median wages grew an average of 1.5 percent annually compared with no gain from 1979 to 1995, says the liberal Economic Policy Institute. “The late 1990s,” it argues, “was the only period between 1979 and 2013 when wage growth was robust and broadly shared.”
The Washington Post
April 6, 2015